Package



UNITED STATES a'rnivr rerun.

HEJRY A. DE KAY, OF POCOMOKE CITY, MARYLAND.

PACKAG E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,395, dated. January 18, 1898.

Application filed December 17, 1896. $erial1\l'o.616,062. (No model.)

To all who'm it may concern;

Be it known that I, HENRY A. DE KAY, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Pocomoke City, in the county of Worcester and State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Package, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to an envelop, case, or package for receiving articles-such as bonnets, hats, 8:10., for ladies, gentlemen, and children-and aims to provide a collapsible case which can be stored in a small space when not required for service and which will prevent the flexible sides from crowding against the trimmings of ladies and misses hats and injuring them.

The package consists, essentially, of a paper sack and a pasteboard bottom, the latter having the lower edge portion of the sack pasted thereto and holding the sides of the sack distended when the article is placed therein.

The package or paper sack is reinforced at its open end by a textile strip cemented thereto and having a series of openings for a string or lace to be rove through, by means of which the open end of the sack is held shut when closed. The open end of the sack is stiffen ed at opposite sides by strips which have openings for the string or lace to pass through, and the portions extending between the adjacent ends of the strips'forin bellows flaps, which fold inward and are clamped between the stiffening-strips, and thereby completely close the mouth of the package when the hat or article is placed therein.

For a full understanding of the merits and advantages of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings and the following description.

The improvement is susceptible of various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof, and to a full disclosure of the invention an adaptation thereof -is shown in the accompanying drawings, in

which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a package -constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the parts as they will appear when the package is closed.

Fig. 3 is a perspective View of a modification. Fig. 4 is a detail section of the stiffened edge portion of the package.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following descriptionand indicated inthe'several views of the drawings by the same reference-characters.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a wrapper or envelop for milliners use which can be constructed cheaply, so as to provide a commercial article of this character which will cost but a trifle more than the ordinary paper sacks generally employed as wrappers for receiving hats andbonnets and which will prevent injury to the trimmings of the hat or bonnet and be capable of subsequent use as a box or package for receiving the hat when not required for immediate service.

The wrapper, envelop, or package comprises a paper sack 1, having a bottom 2, of pasteboard or similar cheap material, which will provide a stiff bottom, so as to hold the sides of the sack expanded and prevent them crowding against the hat or article placed within the package. This constitutes the invention in its simplest form, as shown in Fig. 3, and after the article is placed within the suck the open end of the latter is gathered and secured by wrapping a string or applying a suitable binder thereto.

In the preferable form, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the open end of the sack is reinforced by a textile strip 3, which is secured in place by being gumrned or cemented to the sack. stiffening-strips 4 are applied to the open end of the sack at opposite points and are secured between the body of the sack and the textile strip. A series of openings 5 are formed at intervals in the length of the textile strip and receive the string or lace 6, by means of which the open end of the package is made fast and held closed when shut. The portions of the sack comprised between the contiguous ends of the stiffening-strips 4, fold in the manner of bellows flaps and come between the stiffenin -strips 4i and are held by drawing the stiffeningstrips together by means of the string 6, a loose end portion of the latter be-.

ing passed through the middle opening of each strip, thence returned through the said openin gs after being passed around the portion of the string extending across the middle opening of one of the stiffening-strips, the ends of the string being tied any way found most advantageous.

The package herein described can be quickly constructed, and its use is not limited merely to serving as a Wrapper, as the package is designed for service as a hat box or receptacle to be used frequently as boxes specially designed for this purpose, and the package being flexible can be reduced to a compact form, so as to occupy a minimum amount of space when not in use.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is A inilliners wrapper or package eonsistin g of a paper sack, a pasteboard bottom pasted to the lower edge of the sack to hold the latter distended when in use and prevent the crowding of its sides against the hat or bonnet, stiffening-strips cemented or gummed to the outer side of opposite edge portions of the sack at its mouth, a reinforcing textile strip cemented to the outer upper edge portion or the sack and extending over the stiffeningstrips, and a string rove through middle and end openings in the stiffening strips and through corresponding openings in the reinforcing-strip and the bellows flaps formed at the sides of the sack between the stiifeningstrips to draw said bellows flaps between the stiffening-strips Whenvclosing the sack, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afliXed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY A. DE KAY.

\Vitnesses:

E. L. LLOYD, W. BATES HANCOCK. 

